ATI Radeon HD 3550 vs ATI Radeon HD 3100

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 3550 and ATI Radeon HD 3100 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 3550

  • Around 70% higher core clock speed: 594 MHz vs 350 MHz
Core clock speed 594 MHz vs 350 MHz

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ATI Radeon HD 3550 ATI Radeon HD 3100

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale RV6xx
Code name RV620 RS780MC
Launch date 4 August 2008 1 August 2008
Place in performance rating not rated not rated
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 594 MHz 350 MHz
Floating-point performance 47.52 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 40 40
Texture fill rate 2.376 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 30 Watt
Transistor count 181 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 10.1 10
OpenGL 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 6.34 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 792 MHz
Memory type DDR2
Shared memory yes

Technologies

HDCP support
PCI-E 2.0

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